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All Quotes by author - Francois Rabelais

" A bellyful is a bellyful. "

" A habit does not a monk make. "

" Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls. "

" Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. "

" Debts and lies are generally mixed together. "

" Everything comes in time to those who can wait. "

" For he who can wait, everything comes in time. "

" Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this. "

" From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains. "

" Frugality is for the vulgar. "

" Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words. "

" Half the world does not know how the other half lives. "

" How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself? "

" How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise? "

" How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself? "

" I drink no more than a sponge. "

" If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. "

" If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass. "

" Ignorance is the mother of all evils. "

" I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. "

" In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will. "

" I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him. "

" It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. "

" It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. "

" I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. "

" Misery is the company of lawsuits. "

" Nature abhors a vacuum. "

" No clock is more regular than the belly. "

" One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools. "

" Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. "

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